In the past half a month, Shi Kefa led the eagerly awaited that the reinforcements were slowly coming, but Li Zicheng's thief army was fierce, sweeping through the surrounding cities of Baoding, Hejian Mansion, and Zhending Mansion...... Falling one after another, falling into the hands of the enemy, Baoding Mansion City is a lonely city at the south gate, like a flat boat facing the monstrous waves.

After Li Zicheng cleaned up the surrounding state capitals, the army approached the city, putting on a posture of giving way to the kings of the world, and persuaded Shi Kefa in the city to surrender.

After being scolded a few times by Shi Kefa, seeing that he was stubborn, he began to prepare for the siege, and there were more than 10,000 soldiers in Baoding City at this time! The reinforcements were all blocked from a hundred miles, and the situation was precarious.

"Do you have a good plan to retreat from the enemy?" After Emperor Chongzhen finished talking about the situation in Baoding in one breath, he saw Chang Yu's brows furrowed, and his heart tightened.

"The emperor let his ministers go south to defend against the enemy?" Chang Yu smiled bitterly, his front and back feet went out of Beijing, he came back from a battle, and Shi Kefa had just put on a posture.

Who are you now, you have fought with the thief, how sure are you now? Chongzhen hurriedly asked.

Chang Yu bit his lip: "The thief army is not afraid, but the minister is afraid of the people!" ”

Chongzhen's expression suddenly became lonely, and he sat down slowly: "I don't know, the thief is good at bewitching the people's hearts, and at this time, hundreds of thousands of people are amazing, like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, and it is a big disadvantage to go on like this."

"Surrendering the army without a fight, this is the most vicious means of the thief, throughout his eastern crusade, the siege of the city and the land is unstoppable, but there is almost no battle, all by demagogizing the people, and taking advantage of the situation!" Chang Yu sighed.

"The people are ignorant, ignorant, are the thieves really so carefree" Chongzhen cried out bitterly!

It's not ignorance, it's not leisure, it's something to eat, and if you don't follow the current, you'll be killed right away, they're just trying to survive. Chang Yu sighed in his heart!

"At present, it is necessary to appease the people's hearts, and those who are coerced have nothing to do for the time being, but it is very necessary for the areas that have not yet been captured" Chang Yu thought for a while: "The people's requirements are actually very simple, there is something to eat, and they can be content if they can live, at this time, the emperor can issue an order to exempt Henan from taxes for three years, and the people's hearts will be a little calmer, and then cooperate with a victory, I believe that no one is willing to help the thief, even those refugees who are coerced also have the intention of retreating."

There is food, there is life, there is hope, who is not willing to live and work in peace and contentment, who is willing to rebel from thieves.

At the beginning of the night, Emperor Chongzhen gave a banquet to say that it was for Chang Yu to catch the wind and wash the dust, and to accompany the horse Gong Yonggu, in fact, he gathered his henchmen to discuss, although the Qing army retreated outside the Guan, the thieves in the south were in a hurry, there were thieves approaching the capital in the near future, the Yangtze River had Bai Wang first broke the Jiujiang River, and then forced Anqing, the knife pointed to Nanjing, and then to the southwest, Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan and Qin Liangyu to kill inextricably, the slogan of the Daxi regime has been shouted out, if it enters the Sichuan to sit firmly, it will be a big disaster, in addition to this military disaster, there are natural disasters, drought and locust plague and plague followed, making the people resentful.

Emperor Chongzhen is anxious and angry, but sadly there is no fire-fighting general in the Manchu Dynasty, only a servant sword mountain and sea of fire are tired of running, just returned from the outside of the pass, and is about to go south to destroy the thief.

"The weight of the whole country is only according to Aiqing!" Emperor Chongzhen didn't dare to say anything to the little eunuch outside, but when he closed the door, Chang Yu was the minister of the individual stocks, and the Manchu Dynasty was unsurpassed!

Chang Yu was ordered to be in danger, but he was also at a loss for how to retreat from the enemy, and only got the opportunity to respond, Emperor Chongzhen had expectations again, and he was also sad before leaving the customs, there was no good plan, who knew that it would be settled after twenty days, I hope this time is also a surprise.

The enemy was at a loss for a while, a few people changed the topic, Chang Yu said and a few profiteers in Zhangjiagang, Chongzhen finally showed a rare smile on his face, although he did not say exactly, Chang Yu also knew that he had a lot of income, not to mention a million, as for the heavy business tax and tea tax he proposed, although the cabinet strongly resisted, but it was finally implemented under the joint pressure of Chongzhen and Dongchang and its Jinyiwei, and the reason why the cabinet took a step back, in addition to Chongzhen's resolute attitude, there is also the tax income into the treasury, blocking the Wenchen's "competing with the people" of the mouth, Moreover, this commercial tax was only applied to the rich places of Sanwu (Jiangnan and Zhejiang) and the capital and Nanjing.

Since the treasury has silver, Chang Yu said that Octopus is preparing for the advance of military rations: the war in the north has stopped, and it needs to be settled, after all, the advance is not a small amount, and the pressure on the people and businessmen is huge.

Chongzhen knew that the relationship between Chang Yu and the Octopus Chamber of Commerce was unclear, and Chang Yu had just made a meritorious service, so he nodded and agreed, and asked him to inform the people who knew Octopus to go directly to the household department to settle.

It was late at night, and Emperor Chongzhen knew that Chang Yu had just returned to Beijing and had a lot to deal with, so he let him leave and go south as soon as possible.

Chang Yu left, and in the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen's father and son and Gong Yonggu continued the tea talk.

"How is Wei Zhongxian better?" Chongzhen is suspicious by nature, if it is said that there is only one person who makes him absolutely trust whether it is a foreign minister or an eunuch at this time, it is Gong Yonggu.

"There is nothing better" Gong Yonggu knew that Emperor Chongzhen was asking Chang Yu: "It's just that the means are a little soft, not as ruthless as Wei Zhongxian."

"This is his cleverness, sharp and restrained, overcoming rigidity with softness!" Chongzhen stroked his beard and smiled: "In this way, he will not be as infamous as Wei Zhongxian, and people will be angry!" ”

As the old saying goes, there is no truth in history!

History is written by the victors, no matter whether a certain person or a certain event is recorded, how many historians can not be swayed by those in power? Not to mention that it is written upside down black and white like the history of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the most common thing, and the historian uses the Spring and Autumn penmanship according to his personal preferences, and he can also write speciously and deliberately guide public opinion.

Just like Wei Zhongxian and his people, it is recorded that he is mostly known for his cruelty to the loyal and good, forming a party for personal gain, tyrannical expropriation, and being good at government affairs...... But what about the facts, didn't the civil servants form a party? What is the Donglin Party? Wei Zhongxian's formation of a private party was to deal with the Donglin Party of the literati group, in order to consolidate the imperial power, and not to let the government be controlled by a group of civil servants.

Wenchen is the most selfish, for most of them, there is no difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty and the Great Shun, just a change of master, they consider their own vital interests, who is the emperor has little impact on them, and Wei Zhongxian is different, he is a eunuch, he only serves the emperor.

The so-called tyrannical expropriation, Wei Zhongxian was born poor and never raised taxes on the common people, but only levied taxes on merchants in the rich areas of Jiangnan.

As for saying that he is good at government politics, now it seems that he is fortunate to have suppressed the Donglin Party to "be good at government affairs", otherwise the Ming Dynasty may collapse earlier.

In the end of the Apocalypse, Ren Manqing worked hard outside the customs, but there were no big waves, why is this? There is money in the court, and there are eagles in the court! The money was earned by Wei Zhongxian, and the hawks also headed him.

It is also because of this that he moved the cake of the interests of the civilian clique, and he became the mortal enemy of the civil officials in the world, so his reputation is so stinky! Because it was the civil official group that controlled public opinion at that time, and it was the civil officials who wrote the history of the secretary, so what future generations saw was only the badness of this big eunuch.

And Emperor Chongzhen, who didn't know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt, was also an angry young man back then, and he took Wei Zhongxian after coming to power, but a few years later, I didn't know that the people who are good to you, loyal to you, and think about you are only the duckweed around you who have nothing to rely on but the emperor, that is, the group of eunuchs!

After his realization, Emperor Chongzhen knew how important and wonderful it was to have a loyal eunuch who sheltered himself from the wind and rain, and regretted it and ordered someone to bury Wei Zhongxian and rehabilitate him.

It's a pity that he woke up too late, Da Ming was terminally ill, and there was never a character like Wei Zhongxian around him, and finally the dynasty fell, not because he killed Wei Zhongxian, at least Wei Zhongxian's fall accelerated the death of Ming.

And now, Chang Yu was born, which made him see hope, and he tried his best to break free from the nightmare of the prince, and hope was in this little eunuch.